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Susan Handau
- Visual Arts: 2D
In her decades-spanning practice, Susan Kay Handau has explored nature and aged environments through varied materials and mediums.
Handau, who has a Bachelor in Arts in art history, began exploring abstract art using watercolors. In her early work in the 1990s, she created textured layers of collaged watercolors. By strategic cuts from her large abstract watercolor paintings and reconstructing the parts into smaller compositions secured by thread, she created layered landscapes while highlighting built up texture. Handau later experimented with assemblage using wax and fibrous materials to build three-dimensional pieces out of a flat substrate. She currently works in acrylic, inks, and plaster to render nature in an abstract way.
Handau is an individual artist grant recipient from the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; awarded a project grant in Fiscal Year 2023 for her works on demystifying aging. Her series, My Tribe: In Our Aging World, was on exhibition at the Washoe County Administrative Complex from September through December 2023.
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